Re: Debian's custom use of Condorcet and later-no-harm

2014-02-22 Thread Markus Schulze
Hallo, the Condorcet criterion and the later-no-harm criterion are incompatible. Therefore, the fact that Debian's Condorcet method violates the later-no-harm criterion doesn't come from the order of its checks. Markus Schulze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Supermajority requirements and historical context [Was, Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR]

2008-12-22 Thread Markus Schulze
paper: http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze1.pdf Markus Schulze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-06 Thread Markus Laire
attempt to knowingly violate the copyright law without actually admitting the violation.) [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/10/msg00090.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/10/msg00102.html -- Markus Laire

Re: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-06 Thread Markus Laire
On 10/5/06, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 02:57:33PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote: Hopefully (but I doubt this) someone in Debian will get sued for this violation in Etch, to stop such a behaviour in the future. You do realise we're going to voluntarily stop

Re: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-05 Thread Markus Laire
to stop this. I'll try to do what I can by voicing my opposition to this as a user of Debian. Hopefully (but I doubt this) someone in Debian will get sued for this violation in Etch, to stop such a behaviour in the future. -- Markus Laire Disclaimer: IANAL, IANADD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware

2006-09-29 Thread Markus Laire
this seems to be the case :( -- Markus Laire Disclaimer: IANAL, IANADD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware

2006-09-29 Thread Markus Laire
-- Markus Laire Disclaimer: IANAL, IANADD

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-09 Thread Markus
legitimated and labeled by Debian. Debian can not and shouldn't control what people doing outside from Debian, Debian can only control what people does inside Debian. Cheers! Markus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-09 Thread Markus
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Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-09 Thread Markus
some people who are not Debian Developers? But this work from this people would have nothing to do with Debian. This would be activities from Debian Developers beside there activities as DD and not as part as there job as DD. Cheers, Markus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-09 Thread Markus
legitimated and labeled by Debian. Debian can not and shouldn't control what people doing outside from Debian, Debian can only control what people does inside Debian. Cheers! Markus

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-09 Thread Markus
! Markus

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-09 Thread Markus
some people who are not Debian Developers? But this work from this people would have nothing to do with Debian. This would be activities from Debian Developers beside there activities as DD and not as part as there job as DD. Cheers, Markus

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-08 Thread Markus
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 14:30:41 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 04:05:41PM +0100, Markus wrote: One last point: I have read that DD which also packages non-free programs think that if Debian drops non-free they would need more time for there non-free package and for the (maybe

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-08 Thread Markus
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 14:30:41 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 04:05:41PM +0100, Markus wrote: One last point: I have read that DD which also packages non-free programs think that if Debian drops non-free they would need more time for there non-free package and for the (maybe

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-08 Thread Markus
to become a Debian package to profit from the BTS and the whole infrastructure. Cheers, Markus

drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-07 Thread Markus
this discussion. Maybe you will find it useful or interesting. Cheers! Markus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-07 Thread Markus
On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 18:20:17 +0100, Joey Hess wrote: Markus wrote: Ask in normal Debian or GNU/Linux forums how does a normal Debian OS source.list looks. The main answer will be: deb ftp:... main contrib non-free Non-free removal or no, this is not true as of sarge. do you mean

drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-07 Thread Markus
this discussion. Maybe you will find it useful or interesting. Cheers! Markus

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-07 Thread Markus
On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 18:20:17 +0100, Joey Hess wrote: Markus wrote: Ask in normal Debian or GNU/Linux forums how does a normal Debian OS source.list looks. The main answer will be: deb ftp:... main contrib non-free Non-free removal or no, this is not true as of sarge. do you mean

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-25 Thread Markus Schulze
, Markus? Yes. You are absolutely correct. Markus Schulze

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-25 Thread Markus Schulze
all options (other than the default option) because of the quorum requirement then so does my proposal. Markus Schulze

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-25 Thread Markus Schulze
to change his mind_. On the other side, the winner according to my proposal would still be candidate D. In my opinion, this is a disadvantage of Manoj's May 15 proposal because this means that Manoj's May 15 proposal leads to unnecessarily frequent changes of the status quo. Markus Schulze

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-25 Thread Markus Schulze
when the voters don't change their minds. Markus Schulze

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-25 Thread Markus Schulze
proposal would choose A. Markus Schulze

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-25 Thread Markus Schulze
majority requirement and is dropped. B and A are the only remaining options, and B defeats A. B wins. That's strange! The majority requirement makes the default option lose. Doesn't that contradict the intention of the majority requirement? Markus Schulze

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-24 Thread Markus Schulze
. Markus Schulze (not Martin Schulze)

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-24 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Raul, you wrote (25 May 2003): Markus Schulze wrote (25 May 2003): I suggest that one should at first calculate the ranking of the candidates according to the beat path method and then, of those candidates whose beat path to the default option meets the quorum, that candidate should

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-23 Thread Markus Schulze
other candidate and who rank all the other candidates equally must not change candidate A into a loser. Markus Schulze

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-23 Thread Markus Schulze
:144 E:F=211:99 Candidate D is the unique beat path winner. This example demonstrates that the extreme violation of the participation criterion has nothing to do with quorum requirements. Markus Schulze

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-23 Thread Markus Schulze
is C and the quorum is 207. Then the winner is candidate D. Markus Schulze

Re: [mike ossipoff ossipoff2002@yahoo.com] Cloneproof SSD program, with balloting

2002-11-14 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Manoj, the Floyd algorithm to calculate the beat paths from each candidate to each other candidate looks as follows (Markus Schulze; 17 Oct 2002): for (i : = 1; i = NumberOfCandidates; i++) for (j : = 1; j = NumberOfCandidates; j++) for (k : = 1; k = NumberOfCandidates; k

Re: Another draft of A.6

2002-11-14 Thread Markus Schulze
transitively defeats C AND C does not transitively defeat D. Markus Schulze

Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

2002-10-17 Thread Markus Schulze
candidate with winner(i) = true, the elector with the casting vote picks the winner from all the candidates with winner(i) = true. Markus Schulze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

2002-10-17 Thread Markus Schulze
candidate with winner(i) = true, the elector with the casting vote picks the winner from all the candidates with winner(i) = true. Markus Schulze

Re: Condorcet Voting and Supermajorities (Re: [CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT] Disambiguation of 4.1.5)

2000-11-21 Thread Markus Schulze
" proposal is very weak. Even proposals that are Pareto-inferior to the Status Quo (**) can be "available" due to the above mentioned definition. But this is not a problem at least as long as the used Condorcet method guarantees that such a proposal cannot be chosen. Markus Schulze (**

Re: Condorcet Voting and Supermajorities (Re: [CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT] Disambiguation of 4.1.5)

2000-11-21 Thread Markus Schulze
definition. But this is not a problem at least as long as the used Condorcet method guarantees that such a proposal cannot be chosen. Markus Schulze (**) Proposal Z is Pareto-inferior to the Status Quo means that every voter strictly prefers the Status Quo to proposal Z.